Certificate of completion will be provided upon fulfillment of training requirements

Course Description

The National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) offers training courses on the current cyber-threat landscape on both the clearnet and the dark web to law enforcement, industry and academia. This training course combines lectures and hands-on work with NCFTA personnel.

This immersive course is based on the current cyber criminal threat landscape as seen on both the clear net and dark web, and will provide attendees with a basic understanding of cyber threats, who the threat actors are, how they operate, how to conduct basic online investigations, how to interact online without compromising yourself, and how to become operational across both the clear net and dark web. This training will be hands-on, with attendees working directly with NCFTA personnel. Attendees will become familiar with a variety of open source tools and how to leverage those tools to assess and profile international threat actors. There are no prerequisites for this training.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the ongoing cyber threat

Review NCFTA process for building a machine for conducting online research

Understand the TOR network, how it works, and how to access it; also, familiarize students with I2P and Freenode

Find and navigate the ‘dark web’ forums/marketplaces using the TOR network

Conduct online research to identify threats to your organization

Create a target profile report through the use of various research techniques/tools